Open Educational Resources (OER)

Examples of OER co-creation with students:

• Multimodal Writing course website from CUNY

• Project Management for Instructional Designers textbook from Brigham Young University

• Environmental ScienceBites textbook co-created with undergraduates at The Ohio State University

• Open Anthology of Earlier American Literature textbook from Robin DeRosa and her students at Plymouth State University

• Social Construction of Media: Social Media, Culture, and Everyday Life textbook from David Squires and his undergraduate students at Washington State University

Example of open pedagogy practices: 

• Anna Andrzejewski - Art History professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison - outlines the assignments building to the co-creation of an open textbook about houses built by Frank Lloyd Wright in Madison

• Robin DeRosa’s process of syllabus co-creation with students for a first year seminar course

OER practices extend beyond adopting and/or remixing textbooks and can include integration of open assignments into existing courses or sharing created assignments with other open practitioners. Though sharing an assignment may not be the most obvious form of OER, assignments are fully consistent with the OER paradigm. Assignments can be reused, remixed, and openly shared within academic networks or more broadly with the wider digital public.

The following assignment libraries provide both assignment resources and inspiration for open assignments:

• LaGuardia Community College's Assignment Library
• Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, a peer-reviewed curated collection of digital objects for teaching and research
• The OER Commons Assignment Library for undergraduates

"Sensitile Jali Cascata with Cut Out Hexagon" from the Material Lab at Pratt Institute's ArtStor Public Collection. https://library-artstor-org.ezproxy.pratt.edu/public/25815302